How do you get rid of the buzzing and popping sounds in FL Studio? Is there any other way other than increasing the buffer length without affecting the delays. Sometimes after I record songs I hear this silent buzzing. It makes it sound like I recorded my music in a big empty room...

At 4/25/09 12:21 PM, Murcielago1 wrote:
How do you get rid of the buzzing and popping sounds in FL Studio? Is there any other way other than increasing the buffer length without affecting the delays. Sometimes after I record songs I hear this silent buzzing. It makes it sound like I recorded my music in a big empty room...

Other than getting a better processor/soundcard, you could try using the ASIO4ALL device instead of your Primary Sound Device, it will usually give better results but sometimes it's incompatible. Other then that there's nothing much else you can do other than be wise with which synths/effects/sounds you use according to how much cpu they use.

For the buzzing, have you tried EQing it out, you might be able to isolate the humming and notch it out, it's probably mains hum, background noise or the recorder itself.

One: Certain voices/instrument samples/etc. in FruityLoops have
this sorta... echo effect, I've noticed. It's like the sound keeps
playing on. Even if you don't put more notes in the Piano Roll, it
still echos out the last sound on the roll. Plus, with a looping of
sound, the longer it is, the louder the sound gets. (This is kinda
difficult to explain, but you can tell what I mean in one of my
audio submissions.) Is there any way to get rid of this?

Two: I want to try and make some music that sounds 8-bit... are
there any particular voices/instrument samples that you guys
would recommend using?

And in case this might affect anything, I'm using the free-trial
version of FL Studio 8. This means that as soon as I'm done
with a piece of music, I have to export into an .mp3/etc. format
in order to 'save' it. I'm not going to buy the full version until I
can make something decent. ^^;

At 4/25/09 10:58 PM, TachiSonata wrote:
Hi, I'm kinda new to FruityLoops, and I have two main questions.

One:

That could be either the built in channel echo (on left of picture), or the ADSR envelop. I reccommend you read about ADSR envelops, as they will keep popping up in FL Studio in many different locations, and in many different soft synths.

In FL, right click a channel button->Insert->More... Then click refresh, and scroll down until you find tb_peach (highlighted in red), click the check box beside it so it says "F" and double click on it. It will now appear on the menu when you go Channels->Insert, along with all your other plugins.

At 4/23/09 11:25 PM, snowclouds wrote:
hey, can any 1 tell me how to slide notes in fl? (i thin it's not the scissors tool)

And to accompany MICHimself's lovely diagram, I would also like to mention that if you're holding a chord and you want to slide, a single slide note will transpose the whole chord. That is, unless you make the notes of your chord a different color. The slide notes color must match the color of the note you want to slide. You can make notes different colors by clicking on the button NEAR the top left corner of the window.

At 4/23/09 11:25 PM, snowclouds wrote:
hey, can any 1 tell me how to slide notes in fl? (i thin it's not the scissors tool)

And to accompany MICHimself's lovely diagram, I would also like to mention that if you're holding a chord and you want to slide, a single slide note will transpose the whole chord. That is, unless you make the notes of your chord a different color. The slide notes color must match the color of the note you want to slide. You can make notes different colors by clicking on the button NEAR the top left corner of the window.

Some side info ;) I never used sliding in the piano roll msyelf with that tool. :p
Nice to learn some new stuff here.
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I think you could do that best with the sliding method. Sliding has been explained earlier on the page.
Feel free to ask more about it though.

And how do I use Reason 4.0 's instruments in FL?

1) In FL, add a channel 'Rewired'
2) Under Client, select 'Reason'
3) Hit 'show panel', this will open up Reason.
4) In reason, add your instrument, tweak the settings how you like it. (and save the reason project file)
5) Go back to FL, to the rewired window, click 'Midi options'
6) Set it like this; Map Input Port 0, thenk click 'Add/change', there is now one line in that box.
7) On the right you see a list of devices in Reason, all with a number. Remember the number of the instrument you want to use.
8) Add a channel 'MIDI Out'
9) in the Channel window there's this box 'Channel', set that to the number of the reson device you just memorized. Set Port to 0
10) Now go to the piano roll for this Midi out and add your notes.

Should work.
Now when you reload your project later, you always have to go to your rewired channel, click show panel, then go into the reason instance that opened and there open your rns you saved.
Hope it works for you!

Is there a way to 'onion skin', so I can see the notes from one Piano Roll while I work on a seperate piano roll? (like the ghost of my other piano roll but so I'm not directly editing it). Thanks.

I don't think so, but what you could do is save your piano roll (the score) using the dropdown arrow in the top left of your piano roll window, file > save score.
Then open another instance of FL studio next to the one you're using, and load the score in a piano roll there.

Is there a way to 'onion skin', so I can see the notes from one Piano Roll while I work on a seperate piano roll? (like the ghost of my other piano roll but so I'm not directly editing it). Thanks.

In the piano roll go to the top left corner and click on the upside down triangle, go to helpers > view ghost channels. This will show the notes from the piano rolls in the same pattern. (Or press alt+v)

At 4/26/09 12:40 PM, xKore wrote:
In the piano roll go to the top left corner and click on the upside down triangle, go to helpers > view ghost channels. This will show the notes from the piano rolls in the same pattern. (Or press alt+v)

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Yet again I learned something new. Thanks xKore, how long have you been working with FL?

Hey I got a quick question, how can I make my bass louder, so some reason ( I am working on a hardstyle song atm :D), when I play my lead, chords and stuff the bass dosent sound loud at all, I have it EQ'ed nicley and its playing loud, I have tryed lowering the volumes of the other sounds but then the bass it too loud, Like how do I get my bass to sound powerful and undistorted?

At 4/27/09 06:53 AM, djsumara wrote:
Does the sample sound longer and eletronic? If so then change the time of it, Go to time scretching, and turn the time knob all the way down, it should do the trick

Haha yeah thanks i figured that out straight after i posted >.<
Any idea why fl does this?

No, I was thinking by tweaking the wavelength so it just travels high to low, but it doesn't "ping pong" back and forth. Havn't found out how to do that.

Didn't my answer earlier help you?

At 4/27/09 10:28 AM, ViceOfFire wrote:

At 4/27/09 06:53 AM, djsumara wrote:
Does the sample sound longer and eletronic? If so then change the time of it, Go to time scretching, and turn the time knob all the way down, it should do the trick

Haha yeah thanks i figured that out straight after i posted >.<
Any idea why fl does this?

Maybe Fl thinks the sample should be stretched to sounds right, not sure. But I must say I've experienced it before lol

It does it because FL cant identify the correct way to play it, for example it might think its a 150BPM sample and you tempo is at 130BPM, it will automatically resample the sample to make it sound like its being play at 130, Its a common thing that happens to me, just fix the time and thats it.

Back to my question lol

How can I make my bass louder and sounds better? I lower the volumes on other sounds but when I play my bass it sounds low and not that kicky or punchy, any ideas? I tryed EQ'ing it a bit but nothing :/

ok guys ive been doing FL for several months now, but i really havn't progressed into using deeper tools past the piano roll, and minor/moderate editing of default sounds (you can tell from listening to my songs), so i'm just wondering if somebody could give me a rundown of essential/important tools & techniques i should know to help expand my musical capabilities (like, where to find them, how to use them, etc.)
btw im not fluent with the whole "music" lingo (i still understand the basics though) so if this could be put into layman's terms that would be great
sorry if its kind of a tall order, but i'd really apperciate it a lot.